Louise Gold

Take us back to when you joined. You joined after the first series, didn't you? They were auditioning tall women. Right. So I have no skill other than being tall, the miracle of height, which had kept me out of a lot of other jobs. I auditioned for Jim Henson at a desk. I didn't really know what The Muppet Show was. I said, I've never done any puppeteering. He said, that's okay. Nobody does what we do. We'll teach you. And...

They tried three women out and I was the mad one that they kept on. I think I had some anarchic spirit that made me fit in. I think that anarchic spirit lives on. Louise, do you remember your parts?

Of course I do. Share it with the rest of the class. I was a singing tomato. Who'd forget that? A big mama, one of the big monsters. My favourite moment was doing a Royal Variety performance. Prince Charles walking along the line-up and him saying, are there any women in the Muppets? And I leapt at him. Prince, prince, prince!

Luise Gold. Luise Gold.